{"id":389289,"date":"2024-10-11T14:44:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-apply-a-stress-as-an-initial-load-state\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:44:56","slug":"how-to-apply-a-stress-as-an-initial-load-state","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-apply-a-stress-as-an-initial-load-state\/","title":{"rendered":"How to apply a stress as an initial load state ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m trying to apply nodal constraints as loading on a finite element mesh. Is this possible? I&#8217;m currently simulating a mesh (force + fixed nodes) and I&#8217;m retrieving the final constraints with the <strong>inistate,write<\/strong> command.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On another simulation, I try to apply this constraint as a pre-stress with the <strong>inistate,read<\/strong> command (with the same boundary conditions but replacing the force of the first simulation by the pre-stress, which is the final constraint of the previous simulation). I&#8217;d like to find that the deformed geometry of the 1st simulation is the same as the geometry simulated with the pre-stress, but this is not the case. How can I do this?&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My final objective is to apply this stress as a loading on another mesh, with the same topology (node and element numbers) but a different geometry.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Charlotte.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-389289","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-apdl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["468898","20905"],"_bbp_author_ip":["152.77.240.44"],"_btv_view_count":["241"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["389289"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["20905","468898"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["12"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["390270"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["390270"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-10-17 15:29:56"]},"test":"marie-charlotte-picarduniv-grenoble-alpes-fr"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/389289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/389289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}